The CLOUDS Lab Research Probes

The key objective of the CLOUDS Lab is to develop fundamental, next-generation cloud and grid technologies that support a true utility-driven service-oriented computing. Within CLOUDS Lab, the following research probes are being explored:

The Cloudbus Project / Cloud Computing Efforts (from 2008)

With the significant advances in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) over the last half century,
there is an increasingly perceived vision that computing will one day be the 5th utility (after water, electricity, gas,
and telephony). This computing utility, like all other four existing utilities, will provide the basic level of computing
service that is considered essential to meet the everyday needs of the general community. To deliver this vision, a
number of computing paradigms have been proposed, of which the latest one is known as Cloud computing. Cloud
computing aims to enable the dynamic creation of next-generation Data Centers by assembling services of
networked Virtual Machines so that users are able to access applications from anywhere in the world on demand.

Cloudbus is a new Melbourne's initiative in Cloud Computing for conducting fundamental research on the design and development of different market-oriented Cloud platforms for a range of applications. Melbourne CLOUDS Lab projects/programs in Cloud Computing include:

Cloud Modelling and Simulation

CloudSim: A toolkit for modeling and simulation of Cloud Computing environments.